Selected Poems and Letters

10 best books like Selected Poems and Letters (Emily Dickinson): Edna St. Vincent Millay: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets), The Brontës: A Life in Letters, Immortal Poems of the English Language, Say Uncle, Ararat, The Spirit Level, Collected Poems, 1937-1971, Selected Poems and Two Plays, The Portable Blake, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems

AuthorEdna St. Vincent Millay
ISBN0307592669
One of America’s most beloved poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay burst onto the literary scene at a very young age and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923. Her passionate lyrics and superbly crafted sonnets have thrilled generations of readers long after the notoriously bohemian lifestyle she...
AuthorJuliet Barker
ISBN0879518383
Barker's selection of letters reveals the authentic voices of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, as well as their brother, Branwell, and father, Reverend Patrick Bronte. Charlotte was a letter-writer of supreme ability, ranging from facetious notes and intimate gossip to artfully composed pages of literary...
AuthorOscar Williams
ISBN0671496107
Immortal Poems
Here is the most inclusive anthology of verse ever published at so low a price. It contains not only the best-known works of the British and American masters but also the verse of the most brillant poets of our own day. Oscar Williams, who compiled Immortal Poems, was a distinguished...
AuthorKay Ryan
ISBN0802137172
Filled with wry logic and a magical, unpredictable musicality, Kay Ryan's poems continue to generate excitement with their frequent appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Say Uncle, Ryan's fifth collection, is filled with the same hidden connections, the same slyness and...
AuthorLouise Glück

About the Author:
Louise Glück won the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993. The author of eight books of poetry and one collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry, she has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the William Carlos Williams Award, and...
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0571178227
The poems in Seamus Heaney's collection The Spirit Level keep discovering the possibilities of 'a new beginning' in all kinds of subjects and circumstances. What is at stake, in poem after poem, is the chance of buoyancy and balance, physical, spiritual and political. Private memories, classical...
AuthorJohn Berryman
ISBN0374522812
John Allyn Berryman (originally John Allyn Smith) was an American poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and often considered one of the founders of the Confessional school of poetry. He was the author of The Dream Songs, which...
AuthorW.B. Yeats
ISBN0020715404
Yeats’ speaks with a more moving and emotionally engaging voice about the middle of his long writing career in 1914-15 with poems like the short “A Coat”, “The Magi”, and the powerful “Easter 1916” about the failed Irish revolt whose participants were all but one executed. The memorable...
AuthorWilliam Blake
ISBN0140150269
This has additions. Better collection than other editions on my shelf.

The wild winds weep,
And the night is a-cold;
Come hither, Sleep,
And my griefs enfold! . . .
But lo! the morning peeps
Over the eastern steeps,
And the rustling beds of dawn
The earth do scorn....
AuthorElizabeth Barrett Browning
ISBN0486270521
Excerpt from Sonnets From the Portuguese, and Other Poems
In the very heart and center of our modern world of the nineteenth century there was enacted and immortally sung one of the most exquisite love-histories of which the world has knowledge. The marriage of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett...
AuthorPhilip Sidney
ISBN0199110220
This is probably still the best way to finish a Defense:

"But if - fie of such a but! - you be born so near the dull-making cataract of Nilus, that you cannot hear the planet-like music of poetry; if you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry, or rather,...
AuthorM.H. Abrams
ISBN0393927210
Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six...
AuthorHazel Felleman
ISBN0385000197
The section titles of this book invite you to sample the feast within: Childhood and youth, Humor and whimsey and on and on. This is a book I'll never tire of holding. Memories take me back to sheltered times. I may have been a benighted fool but these poems never ceased to please and instruct: from the tale...
AuthorMarilyn Sewell
ISBN0807068497
Brimming over with the inspirational words and thoughts of some of our finest writers, Cries of the Spirit is a beautiful sourcebook of poetry and prose in praise of life and all that it entails. Here women's voices fill the age-old silence about matters central to their experience-from menstruation,...
AuthorKurt Vonnegut
ISBN0099387816
Oh wow! I finished it! Almost three months later...

I could say how ashamed I am about taking so long to read a less-than-650-pages book, but there was a mix of factors that prevented me from reading it faster. So, no, I'm not ashamed.

Relived, yes. With mixed feelings, too.

I...
AuthorWilliam Stafford
ISBN1555972845
William Stafford (1914-1993) was an earnest, perceptive, and often affecting American poet who filled his life and ours with poetry of challenge and consolation. The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems gathers unpublished works from his last year, including the poem he wrote the day he died, as well as...
AuthorPablo Neruda
ISBN0786881488
Poems from the Film Il Postino. The poems collected in this book are at the heart of the film Il Postino, a cinematic fantasy spun from an apocryphal incident in the life of the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, Pablo Neruda. Together they show why many consider Neruda to be the finest love poet of the century....
The Poems of Doctor Zhivago
AuthorBoris Pasternak
ISBN0837182948
I don't really feel qualified to review this book. The poems are translated in what appears to be a beautiful manner. They flow nicely, and read well. Donald Davie is a poet, so I'm not surprised at that. I struggled and choked my way through each of his commentaries, however, finding very little resonance...
AuthorRobert Frost
ISBN0517072459
John F. Kennedy said of Robert Frost: "He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding." A four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Frost created a new poetic language that has a deep and timeless resonance.
In addition...
AuthorD.J. Taylor
Winner of the 2004 Whitbread Prize for Biography

"D. J. Taylor has written not only the best recent biography of George Orwell . . . but also one of the cleverest studies of the relationship of that life to the written word."
-The Washington Post Book World

In the last fifty years,...
AuthorPaul Verlaine
ISBN2070320537
De magnifiques poèmes, très expressifs, symboliques, avec des couleurs, et même comiques .

"Les sanglots longs
Des violons
De l'automne
Blessent mon cœur
D'une langueur
monotone.

Tout suffocant
Et blême, quand
Sonne l'heure,

Je...
AuthorJack Kerouac
ISBN0142002151
In 1951, it was suggested to Jack Kerouac by his friend Ed White that he "sketch in the streets like a painter but with words." In August of the following year, Kerouac began writing down prose poem "sketches" in small notebooks that he kept in the breast pockets of his shirts. For two years he recorded travels,...
Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters
AuthorErica Wagner
ISBN0393323013
When Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and acclaim, immediately landing on the bestseller list. Few suspected that Hughes had been at work for a quarter of a century on this cycle of poems addressed to his first wife, Sylvia Plath. In Ariel's Gift,...
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